Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE)

Join Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE) and Palm Beach IIlustrated on the red carpet along with Annie Parker and director, Steve Bernstein at the benefit film screening of Decoding Annie Parker - a powerful and unforgettable feature film starring Samantha Morton as Annie Parker and Helen Hunt as Dr. Mary Claire King.

The screening will be October 12 at Muvico Parisian 20, City Place - 545 Hibiscus Street, West Palm Beach. The VIP reception ticket price is $250 and will include the movie screening, panel discussion and exclusive pre-screening VIP reception from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Enjoy light fare and wine and mingle with Decoding Annie Parker director, Steven Bernstein, and Annie Parker herself. $175 of this ticket price is tax deductible.

General admission ticket price is $50 and will include the movie screening and panel discussion following the film. $40 of this purchase price is tax deductible.

Start time for the film will be 7 p.m. for both ticket holders.Movie concessions will be open and available for purchases.
Click here to purchase tickets or visit facingourrisk.org for more information.

Decoding Annie Parker is a feature film based on the real lives of two remarkable women. It is the story of Annie Parker, played by Samantha Morton, a sharp-witted, funny and irrepressible young woman who watches her mother, then sister, fall victim to breast cancer. When later, she herself is diagnosed with the disease, she believes that her cancer must be hereditary in nature. She is resolved to fight back against immeasurable odds.

The film is also the story of Dr. Mary-Claire King, played by Helen Hunt, the Berkeley-based geneticist whose discovery of the BRCA1 gene and its link to hereditary breast cancer forever changed the understanding of the disease. Hers is considered one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

Annie Parker and Mary-Claire King are separated by thousands of miles, by circumstance, background and education, but their lives gradually intertwine until a final, singular and life-changing reckoning.